Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete spelling of
only .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete See
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- adverb Obsolete spelling of
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Examples
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Great Saladine (answered Thorella) effects (without words) have already sufficiently warranted your Gracious disposition towards me, farre beyond any requitall remayning in me; your word onely being enough for my comfort in this case, either dying or living.
The Decameron 2004
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Now because the name onely bettereth not your knowledge, you shall heare behould the figure and manner thereof.
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No answered they, for Faith proceeds onely from a Divine saving Grace, which is a peculiar Gift of God.
The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World 1668
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It is no great iniurie to our language being in one word onely: because
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It is no great iniurie to our language being in one word onely: because
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The foresaid Vulodimir sonne of Iaroslaus kept his residence at the ancient citie of Kiow standing vpon the riuer of Boristhenes, and after diuers conflicts with his kinsmen, hauing subdued all the prouinces vnto himselfe, was called Monomachos, that is, the onely champion.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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If I had not used discretion in causing to be written in our priuiledge, that such debtes as are owing, should be paied any of vs in the absence of the other, some men would not haue paied one penie, but onely to Richard Iohnson, who hath written but his owne name onely in the bils.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Speaking before of the figure [_Synechdoche_] wee called him [_Quicke conceit_] because he inured in a single word onely by way of intendment or large meaning, but such as was speedily discouered by euery quicke wit, as by the halfe to vnderstand the whole, and many other waies appearing by the examples.
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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To procéede then to our purpose; all soyles what soeuer, in this our kingdome of England, are reduced into two kindes onely, that is to say, Simple or Compound.
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For though they were called Synagogues, that is to say, Congregations of the People; yet in as much as the Law was every Sabbath day read, expounded, and disputed in them, they differed not in nature, but in name onely from Publique Schools; and were not onely in Jerusalem, but in every City of the Gentiles, where the Jews inhabited.
Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633
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